How common is the surname Kunz?

9,953 people in the United States had the surname Kunz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,020 Americans. It ranked 3,578th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kunz?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kunz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Kunz?

George Frederick Kunz, American mineralogist (1856-1932), followed by Erich Kunz.

Where is the surname Kunz most common?

Wikidata records people named Kunz in the United States, Austria and the United Kingdom.

Is the surname Kunz getting more or less common?

More common. 9,530 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,953 in 2010, up 4.4%.

The surname Kunz

A surname, carried by 9,953 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kunz is more common than 97.8% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,953 people named Kunz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 31,020 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,530.

#3,578

rank among US surnames

9,953

people in 2010

3.4

per 100,000 Americans

+4.4%

change since 2000 (was #3,436)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,574	Catalano	9,973	30,958
#3,575	Beckham	9,960	30,999
#3,576	Ashcraft	9,957	31,008
#3,578	Kunz	9,953	31,020

Who is named Kunz

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Kunz identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Kunzs

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

George Frederick Kunz
American mineralogist (1856-1932)
Erich Kunz
Austrian opera singer (1909–1995)
Ernst Künz
Austrian footballer (1912-1944)
Simon Kunz
British actor, born 1962
Paul Kunz
American physicist, computer scientist and engineer, 1942–2018

Notable Kunzs come mostly from the United States (2), Austria (2) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kunz

Kunz has the Soundex code K520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K520.

Questions

How common is the surname Kunz?: 9,953 people in the United States had the surname Kunz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,020 Americans. It ranked 3,578th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kunz?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kunz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Kunz?: George Frederick Kunz, American mineralogist (1856-1932), followed by Erich Kunz.
Where is the surname Kunz most common?: Wikidata records people named Kunz in the United States, Austria and the United Kingdom.
Is the surname Kunz getting more or less common?: More common. 9,530 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,953 in 2010, up 4.4%.